The animal of the day today is the extremely endangered vaquita porpoise. They're only between 150 and 140cm. There are maybe two dozen left. They are found only in the gulf of California and are disappearing due to illegal gillnet fishing. Keep going for them, let's fight for the littlest porpoise! reddit.com/gallery/r8txv9
TIL putting LED lights on float lines of 864 fishing gillnets reduced the bycatch of sea turtles by 74.4% & by 70.8% for dolphins, whales, & porpoises. The same amount of targeted fish were caught by both 864 lighted gillnets & 864 unlighted gillnets in a study of 3 ports in Peru from 2015 - 2018. in.mashable.com/science/9β¦
President Donald Trump vetoed a bill that would have gradually ended the use of large-mesh drift gillnets deployed exclusively in federal waters off the coast of California, saying such legislation would increase reliance on imported seafood and worsen a multibillion-dollar seafood trade deficit apnews.com/article/donaldβ¦
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Gillnets are indiscriminate and these top-heavy methods stop birds feeding, leading to ecosystem collapse. The RSPB's researchers should not be condoning this! zmescience.com/science/reβ¦
Bipartisan Bill (in US) to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Bipartisan Bill (in US Congress) to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Bipartisan Bill (in US Congress) to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
California Moves to Ban Fishing Nets Blamed for Killing Numerous Species - The California State Assembly unanimously approved a bill on Thursday that phases out the use drift gillnets in the state by January 2023. ecowatch.com/california-bβ¦
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Whales, Dolphins, Sea Turtles from Drift Gillnets Draws Broad Support. βThis legislation will end the last drift gillnet fishery in the United States and save marine wildlife from being captured and killed in horrifying amounts,β goldrushcam.com/sierrasunβ¦
Mexico said it had captured a rare vaquita marina porpose - a female of reproductive age - as part of a last-ditch bid to save the critically endangered species...world's smallest porpoise, has been pushed to the brink of extinction by illegal gillnet fishing and there are just 30 left in the wild. france24.com/en/20171105-β¦
This month the Belizean government enacted two conservation efforts β the expansion of the Sapodilla Cayes Marine Reserve to be seven times its original size, and a plan to phase out gillnet fishing by 2022. news.mongabay.com/2020/08β¦
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